 Mama Liz ®❤️

Mama Liz ®❤️ International Author~ Public Speaker~ Child/Teen Activist ~ @ www.MamaLizFranklin.com

MamaLizFranklin.com (MamaLiz)

With a natural gift to organize, prioritize, and manage time, I had a near-death experience as a young woman that redefined time to me. From that experience, the ministry of utilizing time to the fullest and "to live every day as if it is your last" became my focus in life. Through books, workshops, and public speaking events, I help others learn to prioritize what matters most and manage all the rest of their lives. I speak in businesses and women's groups, but I especially love working with children, teens, and college students. I share insights into maximizing and prioritizing time, defining a personal meaning for success, and teach the amazing life lessons I have gleaned through time and from the motivational greats who impacted my own life.

Success and Time Motivationalist/Author/Speaker 

www.MamaLizFranklin.com

As an advocate for children and youth empowerment, this season of Coronavirus presented a new opportunity to empower the children of the world. With the help of co-author and other Ambassadors of Good Will, Ilario Tariello, Anna Franklin, and Serena Tariello, we wrote, illustrated, and released 3 free e-books to help children defeat this virus. We organized a team of 30+ volunteer translators to increase it's impact worldwide and plan to produce readings on video in every language as well. COVID OPS has become a rallying point for children's empowerment, unity of the nations, and goodwill for all.

Ambassador of Good Will wwwMama.LizFranklin.com (MamaLiz)

Liz Franklin.com

I love the ability to share stories that change lives and use stories as a motivational platform for teaching success and time skills. I have spoken on time and success in businesses, college-prep workshops, homeschooling parent workshops, children workshops, and teen workshops. Most of my twenty published books are focused on children and youth. Through my writing and workshops, they are encouraged to find their own greatness, learn to prioritize and manage time well, learn success principles, and use their gifts and talents at an early age. 
 
I wrote four time priority self-help books for children, pre-teens, and high schoolers that is often used for homeschool curriculum. (Time 4 Kids and Teens and Time 4 High School and Christian Editions of each).  

I wanted to offer something fun and engaging for the 5-7 age to learn about time so I developed a little character series called "The Time Doctor." These picture book stories bring time to life for them.

College is an new frontier for students with new time and success demands. My latest book, Time 2 Thrive/Taming the Time Monster College Edition helps college students take control of life and run their college careers successfully. With so many parents facing remote study students with COVID, I am revising these for fall release to help teens manage their remote studies from home with ease.

As a youth pastor, the scarcity of good Christian adventure books spurred two series for children and teens. Finally, I created a Coloring Book Bible Devotional with 100 stories not usually found in children's format that I distribute free to missionaries. 

Writing and Speaking are my passions in life and sharing positive messages that impact lives brings great fulfillment.

Children, Teen, and College Author (and a few for adults)

God misses His people and He uses my natural gifts to organize and prioritize time along with the testimony of the life changing experience of almost dying in my twenties to equip others to steward their time well. The years of prioritizing God's time first has been a door to a deep, intimate relationship with Him and understanding of the Word of God. I teach about the value of time with God, time for your own special God given talents, quality family time, and how to manage the rest of your time in order to do that.

Women's and Youth Ministry Speaker on Stewarding Time, Prayer, and Intimacy with God

The TOP Person: An International Business, Politics, and NGO Magazine & a Global Initiative with HUB

📚 TOP PERSON AMBASSADOR 📚 at The TOP Person: An International Business, Politics, and NGO Magazine

Family Christian Academy

My most challenging career was when I left the corporate world to become a full-time homeschool teacher. Success in this job was defined by finding innovative ways to teach four to six classes per day and provide the best education possible for my daughter from kindergarten through high school pre-calculus and physics. The years of self-management as an entrepreneur and time management specialist helped tremendously and became lessons within themselves. I instilled life skills lessons along with the technical knowledge so that she could thrive in life. I began to share time management and life skill workshops both to homeschool students and their parents.  When my teachings began to spread with invitations all over the country, I revised my workshop into books, Time 4 Kids and Teens and Time 4 High School. These provided an elective curriculum for homeschoolers to learn basic time management and still allowed me to focus on my primary task, my daughter’s education.

Homeschool Teacher, Author, Speaker

Prudential Financial

Rookie of the Year- 1989
Served as a mentor to new financial services agents as well as running my practice.

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Above-and-Beyonder Youth| International Author| Keynote Speaker| Time-Greatness Workshops 4 Kids, Youth, College | TOP 50 MOST IMPACTFUL ON LINKEDIN | 250 RISING STAR INFLUENCERS | TOP 100 THOUGHT LEADERS |❤️Mama Liz ®❤️

Liz's passion and purpose is to help people, especially children, youth college students, young professionals to FIND, IGNITE, DEVELOP, AND RELEASE the greatness and vision, the superpowers, inside themselves. 

Liz (MamaLiz) Franklin is an author of over 30 books and a public speaker from Knoxville, Tennessee. She left her careers as a business manager and financial planner to dedicate her life to empowering children, teens, and young people to find their greatness and prioritize time through books, workshops, homeschool curriculum, and speaking events. Liz spearheaded an initiative to empower children in the battle against COVID-19 and is currently empowering them to understand war. She released 9 free e-books in the COVID series in 25 languages and just released the first book in the war series in 10 languages. In addition, she heads a non-profit to foster initiatives for children and teens worldwide. 
 
In 2019, Liz began to write daily content on Linked In. Now, her posts from #MamaLiz inspires and encourages thousands every day to pursue greatness in life.  She released a collection of those writings in "Starting this Season off Right with MamaLiz" in February, 2022 for her Linkedin audience.  

In June, Liz will release the college edition of a two-book series, Time 2 Thrive and Taming the Time Monster, which will be available also in children, teens, and graduates' editions. The series is designed to empower students of all ages to excel in their lives and in school, whether in-class or online.

Liz has been a guest on radio podcasts and tv, including PBS, Josh Talks, and The Spirit of the American Women, and had articles published in numerous magazines worldwide including POWER KIDS. Liz was recognized as a TOP 50 Most Impactful Influencers on Linkedin for 2021, TOP 20 Impactful Hoinser Women 2022, COVID Leaders Appreciation, Bombay Stock Exchange Broker’s Forum Magazine, Dentol Salutes COVID Impactful People, Global Talent Awards UAE, A TOP Person Ambassador, America’s Top 2000 Women, World’s Who’s Who of Women, Who’s Who of Professional and Businesswomen, Notable American Women, Five Hundred Leaders of Influence and others.

Usually, you’ll find Liz writing with a cup of hot tea. Otherwise, she might be exploring the mountains of East Tennessee or enjoying a night out for some grilled salmon at her favorite restaurant by the river in Knoxville with her grad student and sometimes co-author daughter, Anna. If she goes missing, she’s caught up in a spontaneous conversation to encourage a young person somewhere. 

www.mamalizfranklin.com

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I help organizations in finding solutions to current Culture, Processes, and Technology issues through Digital Transformation by transforming the business to become more Agile and centered on the Customer (data-informed)

CDO, CIO & Digital Transformation Director focused on helping organizations navigate the digital age. I partner with leaders to develop and execute strategies that resolve critical business issues related to culture, processes, and technology, ensuring a human-centric approach to innovation and growth.

Dynamic and results-driven Executive with 25+ years of experience leading strategic change in global organizations and SMBs. Proven expertise in consulting, designing, and implementing business-transformative initiatives that drive cultural, process, and technological change. Skilled in optimizing business processes through innovative technology solutions. Strong track record of building high-performance teams and ensuring organizational effectiveness. Experienced in business units, IT, operations, and professional services/consulting areas. Adept at delivering results, driving efficiency, and leveraging cutting-edge technologies. Excels in strategic planning and execution, collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to drive Digital Transformation. Effective communicator and relationship builder, fostering collaboration and innovation. Demonstrated ability to establish data and information strategies, governance, and policy development to create business value. A human-centric leader committed to driving organizational effectiveness and success in the digital age.

You can reach me at https://dtstrategist.com

Manuel Barragan

Leadership Habits That Sabotage Digital Transformation Success

Usually, CEOs demand a "data-informed culture". Yet, in every meeting, they ignored the reports and made decisions based on their guts. Teams notice that, and data initiatives die within a month.

Culture is not a poster on the wall. It is the shadow of the leader.

Your organization’s "social DNA" determines if new technology survives. Leaders often blame employees for resisting change. They claim the workforce is stubborn. But resistance usually hides a simple truth: people are afraid.

They fear they lack the right skills. They worry that a wrong click will cost them their job. You must replace that fear with psychological safety. If employees fear punishment for a mistake, they will hide problems. They will stick to the "safe" old ways. Agility requires risk. You must prove that failure is part of the learning process.

You must also destroy the silos. When departments hoard information, the organization fractures. Digital tools connect processes, but leadership must connect people.

If you want your team to embrace AI or cloud platforms, you must go first. Open the dashboard. Log in to the system. Show them the value.

Think of culture as the soil. Technology is the seed. If the soil is toxic, nothing grows. You are the gardener.

Is your leadership style feeding your transformation or starving it? Let Digital Transformation Strategist talk about aligning your executive mindset with your digital goals.

Formula 1 Ferrari’s 2025 Stumble: Lessons on Flexibility and User Adoption

Watching both Ferrari cars get disqualified at the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix was painful. The SF-25 was fast only in theory; it had a "narrow operating window" and couldn't handle bumps or wind changes. This is the classic corporate trap: prioritizing theoretical peak performance over real-world usability. Your business cannot afford a season where your teams can't use the expensive "perfect" platform you bought.

In the article, you will learn how to:
💠 Avoid the three major mistakes Ferrari made that mirror corporate failures: prioritizing theoretical peak performance over usability, ignoring the "user experience" of top talent, and falling into the destructive "rip and replace" trap.
💠 Build For the Bumps: use Agile methodologies and Low Code development to create robust platforms that handle real-world chaos, instead of fragile systems that break when a user presses the wrong button.
💠 Listen to Your Drivers: create psychological safety so your frontline staff can report the "understeer" in your operations without fear, and invest in UX design for internal tools so adoption happens naturally.
💠 Iterate, Don't Hibernate: reject the "Big Bang" release mindset. Use real-time data analytics to find small wins and make course corrections today, preventing talent loss while you transform.

Ferrari treated 2025 as a throwaway year, but in business, you can't pause your customers or your revenue. Digital Transformation is about giving your people tools that work on a rainy Tuesday when the server is slow and the data is messy. Real speed comes from confidence.

Is your organization waiting for a "2026" miracle while struggling today? Let Digital Transformation Strategist review your digital roadmap. We can build systems that handle the bumps and empower your team right now.

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I watched the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix with my head in my hands. Ferrari, a team synonymous with speed, saw both cars disqualified. The reason was pain

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Formula 1 Ferrari’s 2025 Stumble: Lessons on Flexibility and User Adoption

Organizational Culture: The Silent Killer of Digital Transformation Strategy

Digital Transformation Strategist highlights why the human side of change is so hard. My experience shows that Digital Transformation fails when we ignore employee trust. Leaders must build a culture where teams feel safe to use new tools.

Culture drives transformation more than tech. Without psychological safety, collaboration, and data-informed decision-making, even the best systems fail to deliver real business value.

We must also change how we decide. Move away from gut instincts. Build a data-informed culture where facts override opinions. Break the walls between IT and operations. Collaboration is not just a meeting; it is a workflow.

Stop buying tools to fix people's problems. Fix the culture, and the tools will do the rest.

Is your culture blocking your technology? DM me to evaluate your digital readiness today.

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Organizational Culture: The Silent Killer of Digital Transformation Strategy

We see the same tragedy play out in boardrooms constantly. A company spends millions on new cloud platforms and AI tools. Six months later, the systems work, but the business creates zero new value.

The technology worked. The transformation failed.

Most executives treat organizational culture as "soft stuff." In reality, it is the hardest part of the equation. Failure rates for digital initiatives sit between 70% and 95%. They do not fail because the software is buggy. They fail because people resist change.

You cannot paste a digital layer over an analog mindset.

Success demands a human-centric approach. This starts with Employee Experience (EX). If your team feels suffocated by hierarchy or fears making mistakes, they will not innovate. Psychological safety is a business asset. When your staff hides problems to avoid punishment, agility dies.

Happy employees build great Customer Experiences (CX). Frustrated employees create frustrated customers. The link is undeniable.

We must also change how we decide. Move away from gut instincts. Build a data-informed culture where facts override opinions. Break the walls between IT and operations. Collaboration is not just a meeting; it is a workflow.

Stop buying tools to fix people's problems. Fix the culture, and the tools will do the rest.

Is your culture blocking your technology? Let Manuel Barragan evaluate your digital readiness today.

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